In addition, disturbed sleeping patterns can worsen your mental health and exacerbate existing mental illnesses. For this reason, it’s important not to ignore a chronic inability to get up in the morning. Whether you sleep right through your alarm or lie in bed too exhausted to get up, there are solutions you can implement once you understand the underlying cause of your sleepiness. What It Means to Be Unable to Wake Up Are you wondering why you can’t get up in the morning or what the underlying cause of your drowsiness could be?...

Frequent internalizing is often linked to low self-esteem, loneliness, self-harm, and social isolation. Internalizing emotions can make you feel alone, depressed, misunderstood, and without anyone to relate to. People who have developed a pattern of internalizing often magnify and intensify their issues, causing them to feel attacked or alone, leading to outbursts, conflict, and/or suicidal ideation. ​ Internalizing in BPD Usually, when we think of someone with BPD, we may picture someone with intense emotions and reactions....

The medication has enjoyed widespread use since its introduction in 1994. Today, it is on the World Health Organization’s List of Essential Medications. Despite its proven benefits, Lamictal has its downsides. In some individuals, Lamictal has been known to cause a hypersensitivity reaction marked by severe rash and inflammation. This finding led the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to issue a black box warning advising consumers about this rare but potentially deadly reaction....

Also known as maladaptive thoughts, errors in thinking or irrational thoughts, cognitive distortions refer to unpleasant thoughts that are extreme, exaggerated or not consistent with what is actually going on in the real world. As a result, cognitive distortions can have a negative influence on our mood and eventually lead to unhealthy behaviors. The connection between thoughts and actions is part of the reason cognitive distortions are considered a central part of cognitive-behavioral therapy....

Neither are considered distinct conditions in the “Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition” (DSM-5), but would instead be classified as a specific phobia. Specific phobias involve intense, life-limiting fear of a specific object or situation. When people come in contact with moths or butterflies, they experience immediate symptoms of fear and anxiety. Lepidopterophobia is derived from the word lepidopterans, the over 155,000 species of insects including butterflies, moths, and skippers....

These actions are typically a result of a maladaptive disorder or excessive attention-seeking by the caregiver. In addition to being a disorder, Munchausen syndrome by proxy is also considered a very serious form of child abuse. Munchausen syndrome and Munchausen syndrome by proxy are now classified as “factitious disorder imposed on another” or FDIA in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5-TR). This change represents the belief that this disorder describes a behavioral pattern rather than an underlying psychiatric syndrome....

Types of Neurotherapy There are seven types of neurotherapy for the treatment of various conditions: Frequency/power neurofeedbackSlow cortical potential neurofeedback (SCP-NF) Low-energy neurofeedback system (LENS)Hemoencephalography (HEG) neurofeedbackLive Z-score neurofeedbackLow-resolution electromagnetic tomography (LORETA)Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) The type of neurotherapy recommended depends on the condition or symptoms you are trying to address. Techniques During a typical neurotherapy session, you’ll sit in a chair with electrodes on your scalp. This is completely painless....

The critiques came swiftly from leading civil liberties workers. “Unless we adequately invest in the long-term health and well-being of New Yorkers facing mental illness and our chronic lack of housing, the current mental health crisis will continue,” a response from Donna Lieberman, the executive director of the New York Civil Liberties Union, read. “The decades-old practice of sweeping deep-seated problems out of public view may play well for the politicians, but the problems will persist—for vulnerable people in desperate need of government services and for New Yorkers,” said Lieberman....

However, the processes are also quite different. To understand how each of these behavior modification techniques can be used, it is also essential to understand how classical and operant conditioning differ from one another. Overview Let’s take a look at some of the most basic differences. Classical Conditioning Even if you are not a psychology student, you have probably at least heard about Pavlov’s dogs. In his famous experiment, Ivan Pavlov noticed dogs began to salivate in response to a tone after the sound had repeatedly been paired with presenting food....

Research indicates that self-affirmations may help to reduce your sensitivity to threat—which often forms the basis of social anxiety. In addition, higher self-esteem has been shown to predict less anxious responses. In this way, using positive affirmations may both boost your self-esteem (and as a result reduce anxiety) as well as make situations seem less threatening. Breaking Away From Negative Thoughts Below is a list of negative statements that you may think about yourself if you live with social anxiety....

What Is Priming? There are many different examples of how this priming works. For example, exposing someone to the word “yellow” will evoke a faster response to the word “banana” than it would to unrelated words like “television.” Because yellow and banana are more closely linked in memory, people respond faster when the second word is presented. Priming is named as such to evoke the imagery of a water well being primed....

This article discusses how a couples therapy session might differ from in-person counseling, the benefits of couples therapy, and potential drawbacks. It also includes guidance on how to find the best therapist for you. Overview Online therapy goes by many names, including e-therapy, teletherapy, telecounseling, e-counseling, and even cyber counseling. In many ways, it’s the same as therapy you’d get from an in-person session, only your conversations take place through text, email, or video chats....

What Is a Psy.D.? The Psy.D., or doctor of psychology, is an applied clinical doctorate degree that is one of the highest level degrees available in the field of psychology. Until the late 1960s, the Ph.D. in psychology was the only degree option available for professional psychologists. However, there was some concern that the doctor of philosophy degree did not provide adequate preparation for those interested in clinical work. As a result, the Psy....